Tickets for this event will be sold at Benaroya Hall starting at 6:00 PM. The event is in the Nordstrom Recital Hall and the box office will be upstairs. The doors to the hall will open at 6:30pm and the event will start at 7:30 PM.
Ariel Levy is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of two books: Female Chauvinist Pigs, a classic work on gender and the rise of “raunch culture,” and, published this year, the searing memoir The Rules Do Not Apply.
Angela Garbes, Seattle-based author of the forthcoming essay collection Like a Mother, will be leading the Q&A session at this event.
A journalist who joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2008, Ariel Levy has covered subjects such as the South African runner Caster Semenya; the artist Catherine Opie; the swimmer Diana Nyad; and Edith Windsor, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that brought down the Defense of Marriage Act.
Levy won a National Magazine Award in 2013 for “Thanksgiving in Mongolia,” a harrowing essay about the loss of her baby after 19 weeks of pregnancy, and in March of 2017, Levy released her new best-selling memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply, which expands upon her grief and also gives an account of the dissolution of her marriage, her coming-of-age as a writer, and a woman “reckoning with the various cultural scripts that have been written for her gender” (the New York Times).
Levy’s first book, Female Chauvinist Pigs (2005), is a classic work on gender, using “raunch culture” to explore the unresolved conflicts between the women’s movement and the sexual revolution, drawing from her own reporting on women’s collusion in phenomena such as Playboy and Girls Gone Wild. In a starred review, Publisher’s Weekly praised: “Levy’s insightful reporting and analysis chill the hype of what’s hot. It will create many aha! moments for readers who have been wondering how porn got to be pop and why feminism is such a dirty word.”
Levy was named one of the “Forty Under 40” Most Influential “Out” Individuals in the June/July 2009 edition of The Advocate, and her work has appeared in The Washington Post, Vogue, Slate, and the New York Times. Before joining The New Yorker, she was a contributing editor at New York for twelve years. She attended Wesleyan University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Angela Garbes is based in Seattle, Washington. Her book Like a Mother, a collection of essays that explore the emerging science and long-standing cultural myths of pregnancy and motherhood, is forthcoming from Harper Wave in May 2018. She was the staff food writer at Seattle newsweekly The Stranger and continues to contribute food and feature stories.
